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Fast food is a silent threat to fertility Sara Padovan
Science & Technology

Fast food is a silent threat to fertility

Mohammed Mansour 21 April 2026
Iran’s strategic depth in Latin America: benefits and limits Matt Murphy
Politics

Iran’s strategic depth in Latin America: benefits and limits

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra 20 April 2026

Al Majalla's Film Watch

A tour of the newest movie releases and an older classic for good measure

Wael Said 10 April 2026
People shout slogans as they gather after a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war was announced, in Tehran, Iran, 8 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters

US-Iran ceasefire unlikely to hold

If the ceasefire collapses, China has an interest in getting the two sides back to the table, but it would be a difficult task given Tehran's deep mistrust of the US and Israel.

Xiaotong Yang 08 April 2026
Noelia de Alda

New study finds deep sleep better than long sleep

Researchers also discovered that immersive dreams can play a surprising role in preserving the feeling of deep sleep

Mohammed Mansour 07 April 2026
Lina Jaradat

Hannah Arendt’s banality of evil has a new face in 2026

Throughout history, intellectuals have struggled to come to terms with the arrival of violence and the sudden discarding of values and morals once considered foundational

Asala Lamie 06 April 2026
Al Majalla

The US-Iran war is reshaping the global cybersecurity agenda

The advent of AI has thrown up a host of new and daunting challenges, as the technology is being used to enhance concealment, improve deception and turbocharge tool development

Marco Mossad 04 April 2026
Scarlett Yang

Food supplies reel as Iran war rattles fertiliser markets

Disruptions to Gulf energy and shipping routes are tightening supplies of chemical fertilisers, raising costs from Europe to South Asia and heightening fears of a widening global food crisis

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 04 April 2026
A scene from the film 'Sirat' by French director Oliver Laxe

Walking 'The Path' with Oliver Laxe and Abdulnasser Gharem

A shared idea of passage links the themes of two films, where the road becomes a metaphor for trial shaped by survival and the risk of collapse

Abdullah Al-Oqaibi 04 April 2026
Al Majalla

US-Iran war disrupts the global helium supply chain

The element critical to the tech industry is in short supply following Iran's closure of the Hormuz. This will have serious knock-on effects across many industries worldwide.

Abdulfattah Khattab 01 April 2026
An illustrative map of the Strait of Hormuz in a graphic format, on 23 March 2026. Reuters

Hormuz is not the only weak spot for global trade

Many shipping routes are vulnerable, from the Strait of Malacca to the Panama Canal

The Economist 30 March 2026
Sara Gironi Carnevale

Brainrot: excessive screentime is making us dumber

Cognitive function becomes less efficient when the brain receives more material than it can handle over a short period

Alaa Emara 30 March 2026
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The tiny waterway that put the global economy into a chokehold

18 April 2026

Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players

Steve Hewitt
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Glimpses of Bush's Iraq debacle appear in Trump's Iran war

15 April 2026

The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.

Robert Ford
Al Majalla
Business & Economy

The US plan to turn Syria into an oil transit hub

16 April 2026

Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.

Al Majalla - London
An Iranian woman flashes the V-sign as she takes part in a rally to pay tribute to women killed during war, in Tehran on 17 April 2026. AFP
Politics

Has Iran's ideology actually hardened?

16 April 2026

The change in tone and presentation of policy isn't a fundamental redirection, but rather the consolidation of a system under pressure

Alex Vatanka
Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed holds two awards during the opening ceremony of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, late on 14 September 2010. AMR AHMAD / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Daoud Abdel Sayed and the cinema of quiet rebellion

16 April 2026

Throughout his career, the renowned Egyptian film director challenged authority, rejected easy answers, and remained rooted in lived experience

Hazem Massoud

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